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By: Edward Gheorghita

Nick Bostrom is a well known Swedish philosopher who has many publications regarding the ethics of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Dr. Bostrom’s primary interest involves drawing attention to the possibilities of artificial intelligence becoming smarter than humans and eventually taking over the world. However outlandish this idea may seem, his arguments have turned many heads including those of Elon Musk and Bill Gates. [3] Throughout his career and 200+ publications, he has made it explicitly clear that we cannot ignore this possibility of Artificial Intelligence overtaking humanity.

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Nick Bostrom had an educational upbringing that might seem uncharacteristic for one who has a Doctoral degree in philosophy, and a Masters degree in each of the following; physics, philosophy, and computational neuroscience. As a high-schooler, he strongly disliked the idea of school and started to “homeschool” himself everything he needed to know in order to get into an undergraduate program while performing stand up comedy routines as a side job.  During his career as a college student, Nick Bostrom became thoroughly interested in the ethics revolving around Artificial Intelligence. Because of his strong background in philosophy, his ideas were well received by many. Nick Bostrom had a major concern with superintelligence, meaning the possibility of machines to learn at an exponential rate, too fast for humans to keep track, and for them to wipe out humanity. Nick Bostrom said, “adverse outcomes would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential.” [2]

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A handful of people ignored Nick Bostrom’s precautions, and most of them were workers of